March 2021 Archives - Faith Tides

Diocesan Council Zooms along

Vibrant Content — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 12:58:20 +0000

This regular column reports on the activities and decisions of Diocesan Council, the “synod between synods” of our diocese. Download monthly meeting minutes at www.bc.anglican.ca/diocesan-committees/diocesan-council. Diocesan council (DC) continues to meet via Zoom conferencing. At its January meeting reports were made about the Refugee Sponsorship Program, Christ Church Cathedral School Educational Society and Transforming Futures. […]

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Leading in a time of transition

Jeannine Friesen — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 12:42:05 +0000

I was born in Saskatoon, but I spent most of my youth in the southeastern area of Ontario. We lived predominantly in small towns and in rural areas when I was growing up. Early religious influences include a parish priest who was open to the questions and searching that I was doing as a teenager. […]

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Acting together for change

Matthew Cook — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 12:31:45 +0000

“If people don’t think they have the power to solve their problems, they won’t even think about how to solve them.” – Saul Alinsky The word power has come to be regarded with suspicion in our era, associated by many with only one kind of power: domination. Rightly so then, many of us reject the […]

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Church plots thicken

Faith Tides — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 12:24:44 +0000

Pioneer Churches of Vancouver Island and the Salish Sea: An Explorer’s Guide by Liz Bryan. Victoria, Heritage House Publishing, 2020. No Better Land: The 1860 Diaries of the Anglican Colonial Bishop George Hills by Roberta L. Bagshaw. Victoria, Sono Nis Press, 1996. Ever since February 2017, when I became office administrator for the congregation at […]

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Hello/Goodbye

Susan Down — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 12:07:23 +0000

A new editor begins at the Post Goodbye from Susan Down During almost three years at the helm of the Diocesan Post, I have come to appreciate the stories of community service and individual commitment I heard along the way. Working in prisons and hospitals, helping those struggling with addiction, welcoming refugee families, or offering […]

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Lent: time for renewal

Anna Greenwood-Lee — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 12:05:56 +0000

Lent comes from the French lentement, which means slowly. In Lent 2020, when COVID-19 was still new, I saw a social media post about how, “this is the Lentiest Lent I’ve ever Lented.” Little did we know! As we mark a full year of COVID-19, a year in which far too many have died, the words of the Ash Wednesday liturgy are all too real: “remember you are dust, and to […]

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Budget

Faith Tides — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 11:00:00 +0000

Forecasting anything amid the uncertainty of a pandemic can be a difficult task. In January, diocesan council passed a $1.8 million budget for 2021 with a $131,162 deficit. Many parishes’ traditional sources of revenue such as hall rentals were lost in 2020. Officials say revenue from individuals has held up well, a reflection that churchgoers, […]

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